Remember when James Cameron directed the Terminator movies and he was unequivocally regarded as awesome? Then he made this little period piece about some boat sinking, proclaimed himself "King of the World," which was perceived as arrogant but was really just a quote, traded in wives, and was never really heard from for nearly a decade. So what's the best way to move back into the limelight? Find Jesus. And not in the same way that Stephen Baldwin has. The Oscar-winning filmmaker said yesterday that a group of stone boxes, originally discovered two decades ago within a hillside tomb in Jerusalem, once held the remains of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.
Also reportedly discovered by a trio of archaeologists working with Cameron were the burial remains of Mary (Jesus' mother) and Judah. Who's Judah? Oh, just the alleged son of Mary Magdalene and Jesus, and a tangible challenge to much of the New Testament.
On the Today show yesterday, Cameron noted: "I looked at the evidence initially, and as a layman I found it to be compelling." Years worth of statistical analysis of DNA and other evidence, including inscribed names on the tombs, reportedly sets odds of 600-1 that the combination of names on the boxes didn't belong to Jesus and his family.
A documentary about the findings, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, will air Sunday evening at 9:00 p.m. on the Discovery Channel. The channel is under the Discovery Holding Company (NASDAQ:DISCA) umbrella, a holding vehicle created by Liberty Media. Is this challenge to 2,000 years of widely held beliefs not worthy of one of the major networks? Maybe that says it all.
Beth Gaston Moon is an analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-27-2007 @ 2:19PM
Depity Dawg said...
Yeah, and I saw Elvis eating lunch with Jimmy Hoffa at the Atlantis City Starbucks. They said they were late for a meeting with Sasquatch.
Just kidding...
2-27-2007 @ 2:28PM
Lutz Brehmer said...
Yes, and there were sightings of a titanic
Easter bunny roaming in the woods of eastern
Massachussetts !!!
Another Hollywood elitists attempt to attack
Christianity. Go ahead, live it up right now
and know that one day you WILL stand before
the real Jesus.
2-27-2007 @ 4:04PM
chip rohlke said...
James Cameron should know better(Though money speeks volumes to most Hollywood types). No credible archaeologist in the world would make such a claim based on this silly find 27 years ago that would certainly have made world headlines then had there been a shred of credibility.
1. the name for Jesus(Yeshua- or commonly referred to as Joseph/Joshua/etc. is not even certain...some don't think the aramaic is even close to "Jesus".
2. Mary..Jesus Mother went to Ephesus with John the apostle and died there..not in Jerusalem. Historic fact.
3. It's a bit like finding the names John, Paul, & George(forget Ringo) in a graveyard within 50 feet of one another..about the same odds as these names...maybe 1 in 5 ..big deal.
4. Test the shroud get the DNA off it and check it against the "Jesus" or whoever they found...bet you they wouldn't even be close.(yes the carbon dating was fraudulent..the shrouds pollen, fiber, weave, burn marks not paint, etc all point to 20 to 50 AD Jerusalem...not middle ages where the shroud was in a fire and contaminated by carbon.
5. Explain how a bunch of cowards at the crucifiction becames lions after pentecost if Jesus was dead and buried. Christianity would not exist and certainly no sane person would willing be tortured and die for a lie- that He was God in the flesh and conquered death forever...didn't the prophesy say 'His flesh would not see corription" Job.
Neither would have the jews in Jerusalem be followers of Christ with ten years of His 'supposed' resurrection if He was dead..they would in fact laugh at them as they paraded the tombs through the streets.
Sorry if He was dead the jews and Romans would have killed the church 2000 years ago.
Cameron is a silly attention seeking dope.
2-27-2007 @ 5:29PM
Eathan Mouser said...
James Cameron, I'll feel sorry for you when you stand infront of God on Judgment day!! What you supposably discovered is bogest. I think your in it for the money. You need Jesus!!!